Apple Pledges to Consider Putting Women and Minorities on Its Board

Following pressure from shareholders, Apple has altered its corporate charter to include language about considering women and minorities for executive positions within the company. Before doing so, shareholders including Trillium Asset Management and the Sustainability Group had said that they would bring the issue to a vote in late February.

Though it hesitates to set out a concrete goal or some sort of quota, the new wording in the company's charter states:

The nominating committee is committed to actively seeking out highly qualified women and individuals from minority groups to include in the pool from which board nominees are chosen.

Apple is just one of many Silicon Valley companies that have come under fire recently for having homogeneous executive boards. Twitter came under fire before its IPO for not having any women on its board, though it announced the hiring of Marjorie Scardino last month.